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The Art of Social Listening: 7 Tools to Improve this Task
An integral part of any social media effort is listening. Whether you are in the process of preparing a social media strategy or your campaign is up and running, it is essential to know what your audience is saying. Why you may ask? Well there are a number of reasons but I daresay the most important is that any successful social media campaign must be based on fulfilling the need(s) of its customers. Social Listening not only allows the listener to collect information about their audience and acquire an understanding of their wants and needs, but it can also be used to find out what is being said about the Brand and its competition. Let’s take a quick look at 7 Social Media listening tools small businesses can use to track their mentions across the web: 1.SocialMention This social media search and analysis platform was first brought to my attention by my Twitter pal @Ileane of Basic Blog Tips. 2.Addictomatic 3.Twitter Search 4.Google Alerts 5.WorkStreamer 6.LinkedIn Signal 7.
The Amherst High School Car Club Visits John Robison's Hous
This afternoon, I invited the car club from Amherst High School to my house. Last winter, one of the kids had read Look Me in the Eye, and he'd asked to come see the cars. Today, he bought some of his friends. These 10th graders told their story in words and pictures, and I thought I'd just turn their email into a blog post on this fine Tuesday evening. My son Jack was on hand to help pull cars around, and he took the car club members for rides around South Amherst. Arriving at John's House Stefan looks great in the Mercedes 560SL Isaac and Noam in the Jaguar XJS Checking out the ex-British Army Land Rover Defender Noah's favorite Who wants to ride the Harley? Checking out the Bentley Turbo R Filling up the Rolls Royce Jack was our chauffeur Cruising in the Rolls And then there were cookies Thanks, John!
Top 50 Wordpress Tutorials - NETTUTS
As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing 'Wordpress' as an area of expertise. Of course, unless you want to bluff your way through jobs, you'd better have the skill to back-up that claim. This collection will help. Wordpress Basics 1. Unraveling the Secrets of the comments.php File Nettuts+ author Gilles Maes has written an in-depth overview of the comments.php file and how to make the most of the template. 2. iThemes has a tutorial on how to become a Wordpress developer. 3. Streamline your Wordpress set-up by installing multiple instances of Wordpress on the same database. Theme Tutorials 4. Nettuts+ author Sam Parkinson gives a thorough overview of how to make your own custom theme from scratch, complete with source code. 5. A lengthy and thorough series of tutorials covering nearly every aspect of Wordpress theme development. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Here's a quick hack that adds tabs to your sidebar using Yahoo!
Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into
As you know, the Deep Water Horizon has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It has been spewing oil from a ruptured wellpipe for over a month. BP and the US Government has said they are trying everything possible to stop that multi million gallon oil from continuing to flow into the Gulf. I am about to dispute that claim and offer an expose' as to why that story about them doing everything possible is a lie and a profitable enterprise to those who would make money from this disaster. The Top Kill method was started and suspended several times. The real money is in the use of dispersants. There is a company called NALCO. NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia. NALCO is associated with UChicago Argonne program. If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire. The dispersant chemical is known as Corexit. Thank you:
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Twitter: An Asymmetrical Chat Room
Back in July, I wrote a blog post titled “How Twitter has changed my life” in which I stated that the best way to explain Twitter to non-tech friends is to show, not tell. Giving examples of Twitter’s impact on my life has been far more effective than trying to describe the service in layman’s terms. The blog post has had a lot of traffic in five months, and visitors spend an average of 5 minutes and 17 seconds on the page (for me, that’s a lot). That tells me they’re actually reading it. Looking back on it now, I realize I left out something really important: images. This morning, still lying in bed, I was catching up on overnight messages and thinking about how I’m a lurker in some conversations and an active participant in others. At exactly 10:30am ET today, this is what my friends timeline looked like: I sent out a tweet asking folks to take a screenshot of their friends timeline at exactly the same time, just to prove this point. @Yoni‘s friends timeline is below.
WordPress Theme - Statement | Blog Oh Blog
Are you ready to make a statement with your blog ? Well, the new free WordPress theme from Blog Oh! Blog lets you do just that and more I am happy to release a new WordPress theme for all you hardcore bloggers called the “Statement”. EDIT : I have included the image.php file in this theme as per request and also fixed the WordPress 2.5 Gallery functionality. Test Run | Download Please leave a comment to become a close friend of B.O.B (Blog Oh!
Tell Your Boss: Benefits of Telecommuting | Librarian in Black B
At a time when we’re looking at reduced staffing in libraries, reduced salaries, reduced benefits, and reduced morale, it might be a good time to ask your boss about telecommuting (working from home) opportunities. Maybe your union could concede a 5% pay cut if every staff member gets two telecommuting days per month. Maybe you agree to a transfer or a reduction in health care if you get to work from home a half-day each week. I can tell you from experience that telecommuting is a positive thing: for both the employee and the employer. I work from home 1 or 2 days per week. This was my only condition for getting hired at SJPL. To all the telecommuting haters out there: telecommuting works! The number of Americans who worked from home or remotely at least one day per month for their employer was 17.2 million in 2008. 40% of U.S. employees hold jobs that that could be done at home (50 million). Productivity is hugely increased among telecommuters.
10 Ways to Customize and Personalize your Wordpress Blog | Pro B
Having a unique theme and adding personal touches to your blog is by no means a necessity, but it can really enhance and enable your site to stand out more among the blogosphere’s branded band of bloggers. Just like with any aspect of your brand, you want people to immediately make that association with you and your blog. This can easily be done with a custom design and the subtle injections of the person or persons that are behind the blog. If you are not in a position where you can create your own custom theme, do not fret, customizing a free or premium theme can work for your blog as well. These attentions to detail tend to attract readers more than the impersonal feel that can be imparted by using a standard theme that lacks the personality and flavor of a customized one. Tutorials, Tools & Resources Examples Matt Jay Hafling Kulturbanause 1. The first item up for discussion, is the use of a custom gravatar instead of the default wordpress mystery man. My Ink Blog Build Internet 10 Steps
